Vietnamese Chicken Roti @ Northshore Empress

Vietnamese Chicken Roti @ Northshore Empress

Vietnamese rotisserie chicken is roasted whole to a deep brown-orange color.then cut into two halves. You get one of these halves, along with a dark, intense brown sauce with a bit of pepper and a lot of soy sauce and some fried rice. The flavors are more interesting than you find in Chinese-style fried chicken. It’s one of the best offerings of this half-Vietnamese, half-Chinese restaurant, well hidden down Louis Prima Drive, sort of behind the more obvious Copeland’s. The owners are actually Vietnamese, and that food is the better part of the menu.

Chicken roti @ Northshore Empress

Northshore Empress. Covington: 31 Louis Prima Drive. 985-871-6975.

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